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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Contributions to Audio Steganography : Algorithms and Robustness Analysis / Contributions à la stéganographie audio : algorithmes et analyse de robustesse

Djebbar, Fatiha 23 January 2012 (has links)
La stéganographie numérique est une technique récente qui a émergé comme une source importante pour la sécurité des données. Elle consiste à envoyer secrètement et de manière fiable des informations dissimulées et non pas seulement à masquer leur présence. Elle exploite les caractéristiques des fichiers médias numériques anodins, tels que l’image, le son et la vidéo,et les utilise comme support pour véhiculer des informations secrète d’une façon inaperçue. Les techniques de cryptage et de tatouage sont déjà utilisées pour résoudre les problèmes liés à la sécurité des données. Toutefois,l’évolution des tentatives d’interception et de déchiffrement des données numériques nécessitent de nouvelles techniques pour enrayer les tentatives malveillantes et d’élargir le champ des applications y associées. L’objectif principal des systèmes stéganographiques consiste à fournir de nouveaux moyens sécurisés, indétectables et imperceptibles pour dissimuler des données.La stéganographie est utilisée sous l’hypothèse qu’elle ne sera pas détectée si personne n’essaye de la découvrir. Les techniques récentes destéganographie ont déjà été employées dans diverses applications. La majorité de ces applications ont pour objectif d’assurer la confidentialité des données.D’autres par contre sont utilisées malicieusement. L’utilisation de la stéganographie à des fins criminelles, de terrorisme, d’espionnage ou de piraterie constitue une menace réelle. Ces tentatives malveillantes de communiquer secrètement ont récemment conduit les chercheurs à inclure une nouvelle branche de recherche: la stéganalyse, pour contrer les techniques stéganographique. L’objectif principal de la stéganalyse est de détecter la résence potentielle d’un message dissimulé dans un support numérique et ne considère pas nécessairement son extraction. La parole numérique constitue un terrain de prédilection pour dissimuler des données numériques. En effet, elle est présente en abondance grâce aux technologies de télécommunications fixes ou mobiles et aussi à travers divers moyens de stockage de l’audio numérique. Cette thèse étudie la stéganographie et la stéganalyse utilisant la voix numérisée comme support et vise à (1) présenter un algorithme qui répond aux exigences des systèmes stéganographiques reliées à la capacité élevée, l’indétectabilité et l’imperceptibilité des données dissimulées, (2) le contrôle de la distorsion induite par le processus de dissimulation des données (3) définir un nouveau concept de zones spectrales dans le domaine de Fourier utilisant et l’amplitude et la phase (4) introduire un nouveau algorithme de stéganalyse basé sur les techniques de compression sans pertes d’information à la fois simple et efficace. La performance de l’algorithme stéganographique est mesurée par des méthodes d’évaluation perceptuelles et statistiques. D’autre part, la performance de l’algorithme de stéganalyse est mesurée par la capacité du système à distinguer entre un signal audio pur et un signal audio stéganographié. Les résultats sont très prometteurs et montrent des compromis de performance intéressants par rapport aux méthodes connexes. Les travaux futurs incluent essentiellement le renforcement de l’algorithme de stéganalyse pour qu’il soit en mesure de détecter une faible quantité de données dissimulées. Nous planifions également l’intégration de notre algorithme de stéganographie dans certaines plateformes émergentes telles que l’iPhone. D’autres perspectives consistent à améliorer l’algorithme stéganographique pour que les données dissimulées soit résistantes au codage de la parole, au bruit et à la distorsion induits parles canaux de transmission. / Digital steganography is a young flourishing science emerged as a prominent source of data security. The primary goal of steganography is to reliably send hidden information secretly, not merely to obscure its presence. It exploits the characteristics of digital media files such as: image, audio, video, text by utilizing them as carriers to secretly communicate data. Encryption and watermarking techniques are already used to address concerns related to datasecurity. However, constantly-changing attacks on the integrity of digital data require new techniques to break the cycle of malicious attempts and expand the scope of involved applications. The main objective of steganographic systems is to provide secure, undetectable and imperceptible ways to conceal high-rate of data into digital medium. Steganography is used under the assumption that it will not be detected if no one is attempting to uncover it. Steganography techniques have found their way into various and versatile applications. Some of these applications are used for the benefit of people others are used maliciously. The threat posed by criminals, hackers, terrorists and spies using steganography is indeed real. To defeat malicious attempts when communicating secretly, researchers’ work has been lately extended toinclude a new and parallel research branch to countermeasure steganagraphy techniques called steganalysis. The main purpose of steganalysis technique is to detect the presence or not of hidden message and does not consider necessarily its successful extraction. Digital speech, in particular, constitutes a prominent source of data-hiding across novel telecommunication technologies such as covered voice-over-IP, audio conferencing, etc. This thesis investigatesdigital speech steganography and steganalysis and aims at: (1) presenting an algorithm that meets high data capacity, undetectability and imperceptibility requirements of steganographic systems, (2) controlling the distortion induced by the embedding process (3) presenting new concepts of spectral embedding areas in the Fourier domain which is applicable to magnitude and phase spectrums and (4) introducing a simple yet effective speech steganalysis algorithm based on lossless data compression techniques. The steganographic algorithm’s performance is measured by perceptual and statistical evaluation methods. On the other hand, the steganalysis algorithm’s performance is measured by how well the system can distinguish between stego- and cover-audio signals. The results are very promising and show interesting performance tradeoffs compared to related methods. Future work is based mainly on strengthening the proposed steganalysis algorithm to be able to detect small hiding capacity. As for our steganographic algorithm, we aim at integrating our steganographic in some emerging devices such as iPhone and further enhancing the capabilities of our steganographic algorithm to ensure hidden-data integrity under severe compression, noise and channel distortion.
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Évaluation du contenu d'une image couleur par mesure basée pixel et classification par la théorie des fonctions de croyance / Evaluation of the content of a color image by pixel-based measure and classificationthrough the theory of belief functions

Guettari, Nadjib 10 July 2017 (has links)
De nos jours, il est devenu de plus en plus simple pour qui que ce soit de prendre des photos avec des appareils photo numériques, de télécharger ces images sur l'ordinateur et d'utiliser différents logiciels de traitement d'image pour appliquer des modification sur ces images (compression, débruitage, transmission, etc.). Cependant, ces traitements entraînent des dégradations qui influent sur la qualité visuelle de l'image. De plus, avec la généralisation de l'internet et la croissance de la messagerie électronique, des logiciels sophistiqués de retouche d'images se sont démocratisés permettant de falsifier des images à des fins légitimes ou malveillantes pour des communications confidentielles ou secrètes. Dans ce contexte, la stéganographie constitue une méthode de choix pour dissimuler et transmettre de l'information.Dans ce manuscrit, nous avons abordé deux problèmes : l'évaluation de la qualité d'image et la détection d'une modification ou la présence d'informations cachées dans une image. L'objectif dans un premier temps est de développer une mesure sans référence permettant d'évaluer de manière automatique la qualité d'une image en corrélation avec l'appréciation visuelle humaine. Ensuite proposer un outil de stéganalyse permettant de détecter, avec la meilleure fiabilité possible, la présence d'informations cachées dans des images naturelles. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, l'enjeu est de prendre en compte l'imperfection des données manipulées provenant de différentes sources d'information avec différents degrés de précision. Dans ce contexte, afin de profiter entièrement de l'ensemble de ces informations, nous proposons d'utiliser la théorie des fonctions de croyance. Cette théorie permet de représenter les connaissances d'une manière relativement naturelle sous la forme d'une structure de croyances. Nous avons proposé une nouvelle mesure sans référence d'évaluation de la qualité d'image capable d'estimer la qualité des images dégradées avec de multiple types de distorsion. Cette approche appelée wms-EVreg2 est basée sur la fusion de différentes caractéristiques statistiques, extraites de l'image, en fonction de la fiabilité de chaque ensemble de caractéristiques estimée à travers la matrice de confusion. À partir des différentes expérimentations, nous avons constaté que wms-EVreg2 présente une bonne corrélation avec les scores de qualité subjectifs et fournit des performances de prédiction de qualité compétitives par rapport aux mesures avec référence.Pour le deuxième problème abordé, nous avons proposé un schéma de stéganalyse basé sur la théorie des fonctions de croyance construit sur des sous-espaces aléatoires des caractéristiques. La performance de la méthode proposée a été évaluée sur différents algorithmes de dissimulation dans le domaine de transformé JPEG ainsi que dans le domaine spatial. Ces tests expérimentaux ont montré l'efficacité de la méthode proposée dans certains cadres d'applications. Cependant, il reste de nombreuses configurations qui résident indétectables. / Nowadays it has become increasingly simpler for anyone to take pictures with digital cameras, to download these images to the computer and to use different image processing software to apply modifications on these images (Compression, denoising, transmission, etc.). However, these treatments lead to degradations which affect the visual quality of the image. In addition, with the widespread use of the Internet and the growth of electronic mail, sophisticated image-editing software has been democratised allowing to falsify images for legitimate or malicious purposes for confidential or secret communications. In this context, steganography is a method of choice for embedding and transmitting information.In this manuscript we discussed two issues : the image quality assessment and the detection of modification or the presence of hidden information in an image. The first objective is to develop a No-Reference measure allowing to automatically evaluate the quality of an image in correlation with the human visual appreciation. Then we propose a steganalysis scheme to detect, with the best possible reliability, the presence of information embedded in natural images. In this thesis, the challenge is to take into account the imperfection of the manipulated data coming from different sources of information with different degrees of precision. In this context, in order to take full advantage of all this information, we propose to use the theory of belief functions. This theory makes it possible to represent knowledge in a relatively natural way in the form of a belief structure.We proposed a No-reference image quality assessment measure, which is able to estimate the quality of the degraded images with multiple types of distortion. This approach, called wms-EVreg2, is based on the fusion of different statistical features, extracted from the image, depending on the reliability of each set of features estimated through the confusion matrix. From the various experiments, we found that wms-EVreg2 has a good correlation with subjective quality scores and provides competitive quality prediction performance compared to Full-reference image quality measures.For the second problem addressed, we proposed a steganalysis scheme based on the theory of belief functions constructed on random subspaces of the features. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated on different steganography algorithms in the JPEG transform domain as well as in the spatial domain. These experimental tests have shown the performance of the proposed method in some application frameworks. However, there are many configurations that reside undetectable.
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ARMAS: Active Reconstruction of Missing Audio Segments

Pokharel, Sachin, Ali, Muhammad January 2021 (has links)
Background: Audio signal reconstruction using machine/deep learning algorithms has been explored much more in the recent years, and it has many applications in digital signal processing. There are many research works on audio reconstruction with linear interpolation, phase coding, tone insertion techniques combined with AI models. However, there is no research work on reconstructing audio signals with the fusion of Steganoflage (an adaptive approach to image steganography)  and AI models. Thus, in our thesis work, we focus on audio reconstruction combining Steganoflage and AI models. Objectives: This thesis aims to explore the possible enhancement of audio reconstruction using machine/deep learning models fusing Steganoflage technique. Furthermore, the suitable models implemented with the fusion of Steganoflage are analyzed and compared based on the performance metrics. Methods: We have conducted a systematic literature review followed by an experiment method to answer our research questions. The models implemented in the thesis are the results from a systematic literature review (SLR). In the experiments, we have fused the RF (Random Forest), SVR (Support Vector Regression), and LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) models with Steganoflage for possible enhancement of reconstruction of lost audio signals. Then, the models were trained to estimate the possible approximate reconstructed signals. Finally, we observed the performance of the models and compared the reconstructed audio signals with the original signals (ground-truth) with four different performance metrics: Pearson linear correlation, PSNR, WPSNR, and SSIM. Results: The results from the SLR show that for machine learning models, RF and SVR models were mainly used for signals reconstructions and works well with time-series data. For deep learning models, recurrent neural network LSTM was the first choice as the survey of literature demonstrated that the model is suitable for time series forecasting. From the experiments, we found that the performance of LSTM model was better than RF and SVR models. Moreover, the reconstruction of audio signals from dropped short single region was better than that for multiple regions. Conclusions: We conclude that the Steganoflage, when fused with machine/deep learning models, enhances the lost audio signal reconstruction. Moreover, we also conclude that the LSTM model is more accurate than RF and SVR models in reconstructing the lost audio signals for a single drop region on both short and long gaps. However, we also observed that the audio reconstruction for multiple drops needs improvements considering long gaps. Furthermore, improvements can be made by exploring newer AI methods/optimization to enhance the reconstructed audio signals.
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Program pro skrývání dat v obrazových souborech / Software for data hiding in image files

Morkus, Filip January 2011 (has links)
In my master's thesis I start fromthedescriptionofthebasics and thebeginningsofsteganography, itsmethods and purposes. Detaileddescriptionof BMP fileswithhidden data follows. A filestructureisanalysedintothesmallestdetails to avoiddamagingfilewhilehiding. At thesametime to make profit oftheinformationincluded in a fileheader in the most effectiveway. Anotheraimwas to explain a principalofsteganographicalmethoditself, usedforhiding data into BMP file. Based on these findings, a programmeconceptwasdesigned and consequentlythatprogrammewas made. Itcarriesoutthehiding and revealing data intothe image files. Directionsfor use are made to thisprogramme and thereisalso a demo ofthefeaturesdescribingeach step. At the end ofmymaster's thesis anattentionispaid to thoseinfluencesthatcanbelimitingforthismethod. Exceeding these limitswouldlead to breakingthesteganographicalmethod, whichmeansrevealingthehidden data.
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Laboratorní úloha skrývání dat ve zvukovém záznamu / Laboratory exercise in data hiding in the audio record

Kortus, Jiří January 2014 (has links)
The diploma thesis aims on the matter of data hiding (steganography) in audio records. It describes general steganographic principles and aims further on the specifics of data hiding in audio records and also aims on the LSB steganographic technique and suitability of different types of audio records to be used with this technique. The thesis also describes a laboratory exercise focused on steganography in audio records and influence of related aspects on the final audio record which contains secret data. Further, the thesis describes a program that was created especially for the laboratory exercise, from the design, functional as well as implementation-related view. Within the exercise, students will be able to examine how the amount of data to be hidden in the audio record and different ways of data hiding will affect quality of the resulting audio record, and therefore they can become more familiar with the matter of steganography based on the LSB method used in audio records.
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Skrytí dat v počítačových sítích / Hiding Data in Computer Networks

Hrebíček, Martin January 2013 (has links)
This diploma thesis deals with hiding data in the Internet traffic. It contains a description of the law interception. Various possibilities of hiding data are mentioned. The practical part of this thesis consists of an application that hides the data of HTTP and HTTPS protocols in a fake VoIP call. The application consists of two parts: a client and a server. Data transmitted between the client and the server parts are masked as multimedia data of the VoIP call. When a user or Internet server does not transmit any data, random data are transmitted between client and server parts in order to simulate the VoIP call. Then, the thesis focuses on detection of the attack.
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Advances in Syndrome Coding based on Stochastic and Deterministic Matrices for Steganography

Winkler, Antje 01 November 2011 (has links)
Steganographie ist die Kunst der vertraulichen Kommunikation. Anders als in der Kryptographie, wo der Austausch vertraulicher Daten für Dritte offensichtlich ist, werden die vertraulichen Daten in einem steganographischen System in andere, unauffällige Coverdaten (z.B. Bilder) eingebettet und so an den Empfänger übertragen. Ziel eines steganographischen Algorithmus ist es, die Coverdaten nur geringfügig zu ändern, um deren statistische Merkmale zu erhalten, und möglichst in unauffälligen Teilen des Covers einzubetten. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, werden verschiedene Ansätze der so genannten minimum-embedding-impact Steganographie basierend auf Syndromkodierung vorgestellt. Es wird dabei zwischen Ansätzen basierend auf stochastischen und auf deterministischen Matrizen unterschieden. Anschließend werden die Algorithmen bewertet, um Vorteile der Anwendung von Syndromkodierung herauszustellen.
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Image steganography applications for secure communication

Morkel, Tayana 28 November 2012 (has links)
To securely communicate information between parties or locations is not an easy task considering the possible attacks or unintentional changes that can occur during communication. Encryption is often used to protect secret information from unauthorised access. Encryption, however, is not inconspicuous and the observable exchange of encrypted information between two parties can provide a potential attacker with information on the sender and receiver(s). The presence of encrypted information can also entice a potential attacker to launch an attack on the secure communication. This dissertation investigates and discusses the use of image steganography, a technology for hiding information in other information, to facilitate secure communication. Secure communication is divided into three categories: self-communication, one-to-one communication and one-to-many communication, depending on the number of receivers. In this dissertation, applications that make use of image steganography are implemented for each of the secure communication categories. For self-communication, image steganography is used to hide one-time passwords (OTPs) in images that are stored on a mobile device. For one-to-one communication, a decryptor program that forms part of an encryption protocol is embedded in an image using image steganography and for one-to-many communication, a secret message is divided into pieces and different pieces are embedded in different images. The image steganography applications for each of the secure communication categories are discussed along with the advantages and disadvantages that the applications have over more conventional secure communication technologies. An additional image steganography application is proposed that determines whether information is modified during communication. Copyright / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Computer Science / unrestricted
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RemoraBook: Privacy-Preserving Social Networking Based On Remora Computing

Kodumuri, Samyuktha 15 September 2020 (has links)
No description available.
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DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A SECURE PROCES-SOR SCAN-SP WITH CRYPTO-BIOMETRIC CAPABILITIES

Kannavara, Raghudeep 29 October 2009 (has links)
No description available.

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